| Photography suits the temper of this ageof | Now to consult the rules of composition before |
| active bodies and minds. It is a perfect | making a picture is a little like consulting the |
| medium for one whose mind is teeming with | law of gravitation before going for a walk. |
| ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who | Such rules and laws are deduced from the |
| would be slowed down by painting or | accomplished fact; they are the products of |
| sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts | reflection . . . - Edward Weston |
| decisively, accurately. - Edward Weston | |
| | Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid |
| The difficulty with color is to go beyond the | mental images of scenes I cared for and failed |
| fact that it's color to have it be not just a | to photograph. It is the edgy existence within |
| colorful picture but really be a picture about | me of these unmade images that is the only |
| something. It's difficult. So often color gets | assurance that the best photographs are yet to |
| caught up in color, and it becomes merely | be made. - Sam Abell |
| decorative. Some photographers use [ it ] | |
| brilliantly to make visual statements combining | |
| color and content; otherwise it is empty. | |
| - Mary Ellen Mark | |
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| You learn to see by practice. It's just like | I think you have to have a real point of view |
| playing tennis, you get better the more you | that's your own. You have to tell it your way. |
| play. The more you look around at things, the | And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a |
| more you see. The more you photograph, the | specific magazine's point of view because it's |
| more you realize what can be photographed | never going to be as good. You have to shoot |
| and what can't be photographed. You just have | for yourself and photograph [the way] you |
| to keep doing it. - Eliot Porter | believe it. - Mary Ellen Mark |
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| A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. | Photography is a major force in explaining |
| - Vincent Van Gogh | man to man. - Edward Steichen |
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